A BRONZE 'ARROW' VASE Song/Yuan DynastyA BRONZE 'ARROW' VASESong/Yuan Dynasty Of archaistic form, the globular body cast with four edges and rising to a galleried square mouth rim, all supported on a spreading foot, the neck flanked by a pair of tubular handles cast with a leiwen ground, the upper neck with a band enclosing archaistic motifs against a leiwen ground, the body similarly cast with two further registers enclosing archaistic designs, the bronze patinated to a dark coppery-brown tone. 21.7cm (8 1/2in) high.Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價宋/元 銅夔龍紋貫耳方壺Provenance: Ulrich Hausmann collectionSotheby's Hong Kong, 7 October 2014, lot 3385.來源：Ulrich Hausmann 舊藏香港蘇富比，2014年10月7日，拍品編號3385The present lot's archaistic form, made for the altar or scholar's study, can be found in porcelain. For a closely related bronze 'arrow' vase of similar archaistic design, recently excavated from a chamber beneath the Zhenhai Pagoda, built in 1321 at Haiyan in Zhejiang Province, see R.Kerr, 'Rethinking some Later Chinese Bronzes' in Arts of Asia, Nov-Dec, 2013, pp.91-92, where she notes that the scholars who wrote up the excavation report considered the delicate bronze vessels of Song/Yuan date, such as the one mentioned above, to be among the most valuable relics in the 47 groups of objects.